But children's conditions could be misdiagnosed and drugs prescribed for minor symptoms, experts say.
The small yellow fruit is, however, often misdiagnosed as a lemon, in both senses of the word.
To compound the problem, FTD is often misdiagnosed as depression or even a severe midlife crisis, Rankin said.
The latest debauching of the currency is indeed being misdiagnosed by almost everyone.
Dr David Foreman, a specialist in ADHD, was suspended from the Abbey Hulton centre amid allegations he had misdiagnosed the condition.
Researchers said fewer children were being misdiagnosed, but there had also been a real decrease in some causes of the condition.
For Rory, initially misdiagnosed with a stomach flu, the symptoms included an abnormally high temperature, mottled skin and a sore leg.
Americans should be furious at the fact that our own government misdiagnosed again and again the root cause of the financial crisis.
That is why the condition gets misdiagnosed or goes untreated so oftern.
Mr. Davis said the elder Mr. Roth had been misdiagnosed with depression and was taking medication for the illness before his disappearance.
Last week it was revealed that no breast cancer patients have been misdiagnosed, but some may been given the wrong treatment plan.
In each of those cases, the misdiagnosed patient was hospitalized or turned up back at the office or emergency room within two weeks.
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The state of California sought to revoke his license in 2003, alleging that in several cases he misdiagnosed patients as having toxic poisoning.
But these individuals haven't been closely studied, making it hard to determine whether they had autism in the first place or were misdiagnosed.
When he belatedly recognised that the economy was in trouble, he misdiagnosed the problem as an imported recession that he could safely wait out.
The family of a man who died after his lung cancer was misdiagnosed as a chest infection by a Coventry hospital has been awarded compensation.
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Because experts' understanding of the typical features of the condition is primarily based on research with boys, girls may be missed or misdiagnosed, he said.
His father died in 1990 in excruciating pain from misdiagnosed cancer.
In claiming he is 100% confident in his ability to control inflation, Mr. Bernanke ignores the record that during his tenure he has misdiagnosed the economy.
It is plain to see that Apple has plenty of room for growth, and that analysts have once again misdiagnosed bad news out of good numbers.
Research provides some reason for hope: Up to 40% of patients written off as vegetative may have been misdiagnosed and may at least have occasional flickers of consciousness.
Not even Lee Hoi Chang, the ruling party's candidate, whose economic advisers are thought to be sounder than his rivals', has told the demonstrators that they have misdiagnosed the country's ills.
The naysayers have misdiagnosed the state of broadband competition.
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But I would strongly suggest that if multiple ADHD medications have failed it is possible that your daughter has been misdiagnosed and is being given medications that work for a condition she doesn't have.
They are not in any way a sign of weakness, and they should never be a source of shame or a cause for stigma. (Applause.) But too often, these conditions are misunderstood or misdiagnosed.
But writer and consultant Tim Gill, author of No Fear: Growing Up In A Risk-Averse Society and a former government adviser, believes that bullying is too often "misdiagnosed" and children should be encouraged to stand up for themselves before parents step in.
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